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Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The Old West.. where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world. 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel...
Publisher
Distributed by Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
In a remote Australian desert a geologist and a businessman strike a deal to go on a cross country journey together. As they encounter life or death situations, it is clear that neither of them will ever be the same person they were at the beginning.
3) Rango
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Rango is a lizard who imagines himself an actor who literally breaks the fourth wall of his terrarium when the hatchback car in which he is riding swerves and sends him careening. Abandoned in the desert amid the shards of his former home, Rango makes his way to the nearby town of Dirt, which is experiencing a mysterious water shortage. The actor in Rango seizes the opportunity to invent a grandiloquent new image for himself, and as in many a Western,...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Old West.. where a lone cowboy leads an uprising against a terror from beyond our world. 1873. Arizona Territory. A stranger with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
This time, The Stranger mysteriously appears out of the heat waves of the desert and rides into the lawless, sin-ridden town of Lago. After making a name for himself with a string of blazing gun battles, The Stranger is hired by the townspeople to provide protection from three ruthless gunmen just out of jail.
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
When Melanie goes home from a local pub with the best looking man in the room, she's captivated by his charm and attentiveness. He sails her away to his "castle"--A rundown shack on a deserted island. But soon, his passion turns to obsession and romance turns to rage and Melanie realizes that she is the victim of a kidnapping. Torn between fear and desire, Melanie must escape her schizoprenic captor. A moment of panic leads to murder and madness....
7) Reptile
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Reveals the alien world of these often misunderstood cold-blooded vertebrates, uncovering reptilian facts that are stranger than fiction. From the hot, steam swamps to dry-as-bone deserts, travel the world in search of these amazing animals.
Publisher
Pure Flix Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Five strangers find themselves stuck in a deserted roadside diner. Each has their own set of problems and wants more out of life. The answers to their prayers come in the form of a diner owner, who just happens to be a Nazarene. He only asks that they trust him and follow his words to happiness.
10) Just add water
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Trona, California-- a dead-end desert town for people with dead-end lives. And no one is going nowhere faster than Ray Tuckby, a mild-mannered underground parking lot attendant saddled with a neurotic shut-in wife and an ill-mannered, sexually-frustrated son. That is, until Ray's life totally bottoms out. Now, with the help of a childhood sweetheart and a concerned stranger, Ray is about to take back his life and his town in this offbeat...
Series
Publisher
KL Studio Classics
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Washed-up, alcoholic vagabond Ben Chamberlain drifts into a godforsaken railhead town looking for a woman named Alma. When that woman winds up dead, Ben finds himself wrongfully accused of murder by the corrupt railroad chief deputy Vince McKay and his trigger-happy posse. McKay gives him a horse; some supplies and a one-hour head start into the desert before sending his band of cutthroats after him.
12) Sky
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A French woman finds liberation in the dusty highways, wide open spaces, and smoky barrooms of the great American West. Romy, a Parisian who, while on vacation in California, breaks things off once and for all with her boorish husband in a dramatic final fight. Now a free woman in a strange land, Romy embarks on a life-changing trip through the desert, crossing paths with strangers who impact her life in various ways.
13) Trespassers
Publisher
Shout Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Two couples, each working through relationship issues, rent a gorgeous house in the desert for a sex-and-drug-fueled escape from reality. Sarah and Estelle are longtime best friends looking forward to reconnecting after a period apart; their boyfriends, Joseph and Victor, however, are immediately wary of one another. As tensions escalate over the course of a night of debauchery, things take an unexpected turn when a woman claiming to be a neighbor...
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Mannix, the action-packed detective drama about a tough and cynical private investigator stars Golden Globe winner Mike Connors as the title character. Mannix is a hard-boiled and gritty detective who constantly defies rules and regulations and is able to take a flurry of fist fights, high-speed car chases, and bullet wounds in stride.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Journey to parallel Earths with the iconic sci-fi adventure series that thrilled fans for five gripping seasons. The Sliders are an unlikely group of travelers who encounter alternate versions of everything and everyone they once knew and loved as they attempt to make the one slide that will take them home. Packed with all 87 incredible episodes -- presented in story continuity order -- this complete series collection is the ultimate trip beyond the...
Publisher
Turner Entertainment Co
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Boys Town: Follows the story of Father Flanagan and his founding of Boys Town, a home for juvenile delinquents.
Captains courageous: When a rich brat falls overboard at sea, he's rescued by a Portuguese fishing boat, and eventually forms a bond with one of the crewmen.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: One man is a paragon of virtue, the other a murderous creature of the London night. They are the same person. This version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale...
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